Indigenous Engagement Workshops

Introduction

We are all learning on this reconciliation journey with Indigenous Peoples and guidance can help us on our way. Book a workshop with RDN’s Indigenous Liaison to assist your team in connecting words and actions in their work to create allyship with Indigenous Peoples. Below are two workshops that RDN can conduct for your team and we also can customize training to your unique needs. These workshops are interactive and meant for smaller groups, so they are limited to 15 people.

Workshops Offered

Personal Land Acknowledgement Workshop

(3-4 hours)

Land acknowledgements are a first step in recognizing and showing respect for Indigenous Peoples. By making land acknowledgements more personalized, a person can demonstrate their commitment to reconciliation through genuine connection and empathy to further relationships with Indigenous Peoples. RDN’s Indigenous Liaison will conduct a workshop with your team to open the conversation about reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, how to personalize your land acknowledgement, and the allyship created from meaningful land acknowledgements.

This workshop creates a safe space to have conversation, create understanding, and demonstrate the power of connecting our words and actions to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

Incorporating TRC and UNDRIP into Your Work & Teams Workshop (3-4 hours)

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada identified 94 Calls of Action to foster truth, reconciliation, and healing with Indigenous Peoples as well as the United Nations developed its United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples framework for reconciliation, healing and peace with Indigenous Peoples. Learn from RDN’s Indigenous Liaison how to identify the TRC and UNDRIP Calls to Action that are relevant to your team’s work, how to include these Calls to Action in your work planning, and how to create meaningful allyship with Indigenous Peoples in your daily work.

This workshop is a safe space to have conversations, create learnings, dispel myths, and demonstrate the power of actions to create allyship with Indigenous Peoples.

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